Chris O’Kane
@budgetmotelabyss.bsky.social
Middle aged punk from a Quaker family.
Aspiring Danish Marxist
Working on finishing a book on A Critical Theory of Capitalist Social Domination while I train to be a clinical social worker.
Full Communism Now
Aspiring Danish Marxist
Working on finishing a book on A Critical Theory of Capitalist Social Domination while I train to be a clinical social worker.
Full Communism Now
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I enjoyed this paper a lot -- a good companion to "Telling the Truth about Class" by G.M. Tamas, IMHO.
December 3, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I enjoyed this paper a lot -- a good companion to "Telling the Truth about Class" by G.M. Tamas, IMHO.
Good riddance
Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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December 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
Good riddance
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Among leftists & fascists alike, children are often reduced to a mere idea. There are plenty who speak on behalf of children without building solidarity with actual children. Even with the most liberationist intentions, this is rooted in adult supremacy. It has to start with kids.
December 2, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Among leftists & fascists alike, children are often reduced to a mere idea. There are plenty who speak on behalf of children without building solidarity with actual children. Even with the most liberationist intentions, this is rooted in adult supremacy. It has to start with kids.
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Thinking of my partner and her colleages at Ursinus College as their admins start the process of laying off more faculty and staff. Just ridiculous and terrible smh
December 1, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Thinking of my partner and her colleages at Ursinus College as their admins start the process of laying off more faculty and staff. Just ridiculous and terrible smh
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Intense levels of Danish Marxism heating up cold Toronto tomorrow:
December 2, 2025 at 2:30 PM
Intense levels of Danish Marxism heating up cold Toronto tomorrow:
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I reviewed every individual chapter of Kevin Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads. It's a great book for everyone interested in versions of Marx relevant for feminism, antiracism, or decolonisation. Anderson shows that Marx himself was already on the right track!
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Just finished Kevin Anderson’s new book on colonialism, gender, and non-Western postcapitalism from @versobooks.bsky.social. It’s great! I used to do book summaries on Twitter, but Bluesky doesn’t seem to encourage that stuff. Would there be interest in a chapter-by-chapter breakdown of the book?
December 1, 2025 at 8:57 AM
I reviewed every individual chapter of Kevin Anderson's The Late Marx's Revolutionary Roads. It's a great book for everyone interested in versions of Marx relevant for feminism, antiracism, or decolonisation. Anderson shows that Marx himself was already on the right track!
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Will be speaking at this virtually tomorrow: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
Gillian Rose: History, Marxism, and the Turn to Law
warwick.ac.uk
December 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Will be speaking at this virtually tomorrow: warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/law/...
Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
Trying to argue that Rose's critique of Marxism/Critical Theory is still important for the development of critical marxism....
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I haven’t read it yet so I don’t want to misspeak but in my heart of hearts I feel and suspect this is the book everyone should be reading instead of Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 PM
I haven’t read it yet so I don’t want to misspeak but in my heart of hearts I feel and suspect this is the book everyone should be reading instead of Haidt’s “The Anxious Generation”
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There is going to be a lot more resistance to the Trump administration from Senators in the coming months and years because he's at 60% disapproval and lots of these people want to run for president
Kelly: He runs around on stage talking about lethality and the warrior ethos.. That’s not the message that should be coming from the Secretary of Defense… He runs around on a stage like he’s a 12 year old playing army. It’s embarrassing.
December 1, 2025 at 11:38 PM
There is going to be a lot more resistance to the Trump administration from Senators in the coming months and years because he's at 60% disapproval and lots of these people want to run for president
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Issue 4
Pinko Magazine’s fourth issue is finally here. The only print magazine of gay communism in English has returned with 100 pages of new essays, analysis, art, interviews and archival material from the f...
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November 7, 2025 at 6:12 PM
NOW ON SALE: PINKO MAGAZINE ISSUE 4! 100 luscious pages of the most advanced gay communist print material you can find in English. PRE-ORDER YOUR COPY TODAY to get it in hand by the end of the year shop.pinko.online/products/issue-4
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This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽
NYC book launch event “Fifty Years of Marxist Feminism” featuring Alyssa Battistoni, Robyn Marasco, Aaron Jaffe, & Rachel Schreiber is coming up on December 2. Register to make sure you get a spot, and tell your friends who may be interested.
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM
This is tomorrow! If you're in NY, come through 👇🏽
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For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
That Viral Essay Scandal is (SURPRISE!) Actually About Trans People
A shoddy Oklahoma University essay went viral. Cis people think this is about conservatives whining for better grades. Trans people see a planned attack on a trans academic.
(Note for free subscriber...
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December 1, 2025 at 3:18 PM
For my newsletter, I wrote about that college essay scandal that's gone viral and what everyone is seeming to miss:
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
It's about ATTACKING TRANS PEOPLE!!!
www.burnsnotice.com/that-viral-e...
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Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
December 1, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Today is the 70th anniversary of Rosa Parks' arrest. Six myths: 1) She wasn't old or tired. 42 years old that day, she had a "life history of being rebellious" & had spent two decades helping to turn the Montgomery NAACP into a more activist branch alongside ED Nixon and Johnnie Carr.
all i have to say about that essay it that i had a very different experience teaching than most of you.....
December 1, 2025 at 7:01 PM
all i have to say about that essay it that i had a very different experience teaching than most of you.....
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Texans: looking for food/pit stop recs in the Laredo/McAllen area. Favorite restaraunts, bars, local gems, places you go out of your way to stop at when you're on a road trip. Ily <3
December 1, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Texans: looking for food/pit stop recs in the Laredo/McAllen area. Favorite restaraunts, bars, local gems, places you go out of your way to stop at when you're on a road trip. Ily <3
Had this song in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ME...
Some Velvet Sidwalk - Dinosaur
YouTube video by fatalist palmistry
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December 1, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Had this song in my head www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9ME...
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Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
Yet another reminder that the very best job in this world is failed college football coach.
November 30, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Also a reminder: a number of graduate programs at MSU have suspended intake for the coming fall, including 21 in the College of Arts and Letters.
That time of the semester I want to order a bunch of books to read over break that I probably won’t read because I will be too busy with “my work”.
November 30, 2025 at 5:38 PM
That time of the semester I want to order a bunch of books to read over break that I probably won’t read because I will be too busy with “my work”.
Intellectual and Manual Labour, but about the exchange abstraction and Dissociation.
November 30, 2025 at 5:15 PM
Intellectual and Manual Labour, but about the exchange abstraction and Dissociation.
Wish I had known earlier that many of the authors of the academic books that make splashes have publicists.
November 30, 2025 at 4:41 PM
Wish I had known earlier that many of the authors of the academic books that make splashes have publicists.
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The Frankfurt School be like . . .
November 30, 2025 at 2:58 PM
The Frankfurt School be like . . .
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Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
November 29, 2025 at 3:37 PM
Or @hsteffen.bsky.social, in “Adjunct,” giving a concise, bullet-pointed definition of neoliberalism that can go right onto a classroom handout or union meeting flyer — I’ll teach it next week 🙏
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600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me:
November 29, 2025 at 6:55 PM
600 ICE agents were supposed to be deployed to Canal Street. Hundreds of New Yorkers gathered instead.
Quick summary by me:
Quick summary by me: